Various things in Russia, depicted in photographs (no 56k)
Posted: 2007-12-29 12:53pm
Here be a thread that would show various things in Russia and Former Soviet Union - the capital Moscow, the swampy Petersburg, the remote Siberian city of Omsk, where I live, and other places - all that I took pictures of. I like to take photographs sculpture, industrial objects, architecture, and daily life. The latter would often be illuminating and interesting, or at least I hope so
Therefore, those will be the main themes of this thread. It could also be used as a guide for sightseeing, especially what concerns Omsk. Though it's hard to imagine a foreign tourist to get so deep into the Motherland
Commentaries will be offered with each post, telling about the photo subject. Photos can be used as wallpapers by whoever likes them.
Series #1. Shattered Dreams
Location of the object, clickable. Will lead to Google Maps satellite:
In the quartals of Old Kirovsk - an old, industrial part of the city which used to be a village called Kulomzino, based around the railway line and the railway bridge over the river Irtysh, you can find this little memorial. There is no date for the sculpture and no inscriptions on it's postament. It looks worn-out (probably after several new paintings). The boy lacks a hand - quite likely the work of vandals. It just screams of the early Soviet era, when it was probably built. Then it slowly aged through the years and was weathered, like the dream of equality and justice for all. It feels calm and sad. When the weather was right, I took my NIKON D50 and made this photo series.
I frequently visit the small park which is right near the bus stop - there's the Kirovsk military commisariat for army draftees and a tax collector's office several hundred meters away.
If you ever come to Omsk and ask me to be your guide, we'd probably start our tour around the industrial Old Kirovsk from this very place.
Therefore, those will be the main themes of this thread. It could also be used as a guide for sightseeing, especially what concerns Omsk. Though it's hard to imagine a foreign tourist to get so deep into the Motherland
Commentaries will be offered with each post, telling about the photo subject. Photos can be used as wallpapers by whoever likes them.
Series #1. Shattered Dreams
Location of the object, clickable. Will lead to Google Maps satellite:
In the quartals of Old Kirovsk - an old, industrial part of the city which used to be a village called Kulomzino, based around the railway line and the railway bridge over the river Irtysh, you can find this little memorial. There is no date for the sculpture and no inscriptions on it's postament. It looks worn-out (probably after several new paintings). The boy lacks a hand - quite likely the work of vandals. It just screams of the early Soviet era, when it was probably built. Then it slowly aged through the years and was weathered, like the dream of equality and justice for all. It feels calm and sad. When the weather was right, I took my NIKON D50 and made this photo series.
I frequently visit the small park which is right near the bus stop - there's the Kirovsk military commisariat for army draftees and a tax collector's office several hundred meters away.
If you ever come to Omsk and ask me to be your guide, we'd probably start our tour around the industrial Old Kirovsk from this very place.